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INDIANAPOLIS - His pilot's license fresh in his hands, an Indiana teenager set out in June for the adventure of a lifetime: an around-the-world flight with his father designed to break a record and raise money to build schools in his father's native Pakistan.
Just days before the father and son were to return home to Indiana, the trip turned tragic when their plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean shortly after leaving Pago Pago in American Samoa on Tuesday night. The body of 17-year-old Haris Suleman was recovered, but crews were still searching Wednesday for the father, Babar Suleman.
The Sulemans left the state on June 19 in hopes of setting the record for the fastest circumnavigation around the world in a single-engine airplane with the youngest pilot in command to do so.
For more than a month, the trip was everything they'd hoped for, with visits to the pyramids and rides on camels in Egypt, a family reunion in Pakistan and much more. Even food poisoning and delays that meant they wouldn't complete the trip in their intended 30 days couldn't dilute the teen's enthusiasm as he saw Europe, Africa, Asia and the South Pacific.
"There is so much beauty and culture in each country that I couldn't possibly witness all that I want to," Haris Suleman told The Indianapolis Star in an email recently.
The teen's 26-year-old sister, Hiba Suleman, said her father and brother had undergone training to learn how to handle an ocean landing and wore protective immersion suits when flying over water. She said it was unusual for them to take off at night but didn't know whether that contributed to the crash.
"With a trip like this, there's always a risk, and they did prepare for that risk," she said at a news conference Wednesday in Plainfield, Indiana, where the family lives.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has an inspector in American Samoa who will be looking into this accident. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Terry Williams said the agency will work with local authorities on the investigation, but he couldn't confirm if NTSB will send its own investigator to the territory.
U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman Petty Officer Melissa McKenzie said witnesses reported seeing the single-engine Hawker Beechcraft go down about a mile from shore shortly after taking off from Pago Pago International Airport. The plane was headed to Honolulu.
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Haris, who had just completed his junior year of high school, had been flying with his father - an engineer - since age 8 and in June acquired his pilot's license and instrument rating, which authorized him to fly an aircraft over oceans.
The trip was also raising money for the Citizens Foundation, a nonprofit that builds schools in Pakistan. The organization has built 1,000 schools for boys and girls in Pakistan, and Khan said the father-son team had raised about $500,000, nearly enough to build three more.
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Hiba Suleman said her older brother was trying to fly to American Samoa to bring back her Haris' remains. She also said the family is hopeful that Babar Suleman might be alive.
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Attributing Blame — from the Baseball Diamond to the War on Terror
Posted by Jon Hanson & Michael McCann on July 25, 2008
The Yankees' Joba Chamberlain and the Red Sox's Kevin Youkilis are at it again. Joba, who showed no sign of control problems, nonetheless launched a pitch at Kevin's head in tonight's pitchers' dual. The big question, of course, is whether Joba's head-ward pitch was intentional or inadvertent. With that question in mind, we thought this an opportune moment to reprise a post we initially published in September.
Whenever we witness something harmful or unexpected, we humans look to make attributions of causation, responsibility, and blame. Social psychologists have been studying the way we make those attributions for the last half century. Part of that research, known as attribution theory, focuses on how we draw inferences about how much control people exert over their behavior: the more control they appear to exert, the more we hold them responsible or blameworthy for the consequences of their actions. To assess control, we draw inferences about, among other things, whether the person acted volitionally or intentionally and about the person's motivation. When we think an injurer acted intentionally and maliciously we attribute blame — which is accompanied by a desire to punish the injurer and to compensate the victim.
This naive psychology of blame attributions is fairly automatic and depends on more or less instantaneous impressions. And although our attributions result from inferences of, among other things, intent and motive, we are hampered by the fact that we cannot directly access someone else's motives or intentions (in fact, we're not very good at ascertaining our own). And, often, the individuals who we are judging have an interest in presenting themselves as innocent — regardless of the truth of the matter. In making attributions about another person's harm-causing actions, therefore, we are often forced to rely on imperfect external cues. Conflict between individuals and groups often emerges precisely because attributional ambiguity leads to divergent interpretations and reactions. What a victim might perceive as outrageous, an injurer might construe as merely unfortunate or even richly deserved. The legal system is caught up in these attributional contests every day. For instance, most of tort law — in doctrine and in practice — is devoted to the question of resolving competing attributional accounts for the same personal injury.
One important cue regarding someone's intentions and motives is the number of times that they engaged in the sort of behavior that caused the harm. If a person engages in harm-causing conduct one time, we may, absent other indicia of intent, call that "an accident." The harm elicits some emotion, but it is rarely one of intense anger toward the injurer or sympathy for the victim. If that person engages in the very same conduct a second time — particularly if the acts are temporally proximate — then automatically and instantaneously, our attributions and emotions change. In an instant, in response to behavior that is otherwise identical, we can go from relatively indifferent to indignant.
This week's final inning in the three-game rivalry-hyped series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees illustrates this phenomenon perfectly. View the (five-minute) video below to see what we mean.
Two identical pitches. Two very different reactions on the part of the umpire, the batter, the fans, and some of the players. One fastball thrown at the batter's head may have been an accident. But two, one after the other, seems pretty clearly intentional and maliciously motivated. Sports writer Ian O'Connor summarized his reaction as follows:
Joba Chamberlain did it on purpose. Two nuclear-powered fastballs, back-to-back, raging over the head belonging to Kevin Youkilis were indeed thrown with vile intentions. The first one, clocked at 98 mph, sounded like this: See you at Fenway in two weeks. The second one, clocked at 99 mph, sounded like this: See you in the ALCS after that.
Though never explicit in his wording, Youkilis made similar attributions after the game:
Two balls go at your head and the guy has a zero ERA and he's around the strike zone pretty good, any man is going to go out there and think that the balls were intended to hit him in the head. I didn't see any other pitches going that far out of the strike zone.
Of course, we can't be completely sure if the pitcher, Joba Chamberlain, was truly head hunting. If one accident is possible, then so is two; plus we really don't know what was happening inside Chamberlain's head. So we look at the circumstances: "could he have been exacting revenge for something earlier in the game? What other motives did he have one way or the other?" And, in the hope of gleaning more about the interior of the black box of his mind, reporters ask the obvious questions: "did you do that on purpose?," "what were you thinking?" and so on. To view Chamberlain's responses to those sorts of questions watch the three-minute video below.
Did you find him convincing? Major League Baseball didn't, at least not completely. They concluded Chamberlain was sufficiently culpable to warrant an official penalty. Much like our legal system might, the League punished Chamberlain, suspending him two games and fining him $1,000 for "inappropriate actions." Of course, had Chamberlain menacingly pointed at his temple between the two pitches, the League would have seen more unambiguously into the black box regarding his actual intent and would therefore have imposed a much harsher punishment.
The League's response may do little to influence the likely payback that is to follow when the Red Sox host the Yankees later this month. Throwing fastballs at the head is a serious attack, one that Red Sox pitchers will want to avenge. Still, the League has intervened in part to prevent the sort of escalating conflicts that, history proves, often occur when attributions of blame between teams or other groups fester. The fact that two sides of a conflict make their attributions in group-affirming ways is a major source of the escalation. Both sides tend to agree on one thing: "They are to blame; we are not."
Common-law historians tell us that a primary reason for the creation and success of the common law, particularly criminal and tort law, was to serve as a substitute for the "self-help" option when one person's acts harmed another, and divergent attributions led to escalations of violence between individuals and groups. The common law provided a relatively neutral third party — be it a judge or jury of one's peers — who could hear the conflicting accounts and reach a fair apportionment of damages or penalty based on perceived culpability. Assuming the institution remained credible, parties tended to live with those decisions and to be less eager to resort to self-help.
The same sorts of automatic attributional tendencies and dynamics that influence how we feel about a particular player on a particular team, or even how we decide to punish tort or criminal defendants can be found in all of our interactions — small and big. They even lie at the heart of many international and global conflicts.
Indeed, the attributional inferences drawn in responses to Chamberlain's two head-oriented pitches were surprisingly similar to the attributional inferences drawn by most Americans in response to the World Trade Center Bombings on 9/11.
When the first plane hit the first tower, there was a strong sense of sadness for the victims, but the incident was automatically presumed by most to have been an unfortunate accident. It was developing into a tragic story, but not different in kind from other large accidents. The second plane crashing into the second tower completely changed all that in an unthinking instant. An accident, over which a pilot exercised little control, turned into an intentional, deliberate, purposeful, hateful attack by terrorists on "us." To see what we mean, view the (nine- minute) video below of news coverage of the event as it unfolded.
Two identical explosions. Two very different reactions.
It was the power of the second set of reactions that fueled, not only the national urge to rescue and assist victims, but also the widespread craving to punish the evildoers. Consider the varying reactions of President Bush to the first and second crash, as later told to Dan Balz and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post:
Bush remembers senior adviser Karl Rove bringing him the news, saying it appeared to be an accident involving a small, twin-engine plane. In fact it was American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 out of Boston's Logan International Airport. Based on what he was told, Bush assumed it was an accident. "This is pilot error," the president recalled saying. "It's unbelievable that somebody would do this." Conferring with Andrew H. Card Jr., his White House chief of staff, Bush said, "The guy must have had a heart attack."
. . . At 9:05 a.m., United Airlines Flight 175, also a Boeing 767, smashed into the South Tower of the trade center. Bush was seated on a stool in the classroom when Card whispered the news: "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack." Bush remembers exactly what he thought: "They had declared war on us, and I made up my mind at that moment that we were going to war."
No doubt, our assessments of the intentions and motives of the evildoers were correct: The bombings were intentional and maliciously motivated. Still, there may be lessons to be learned from the Major League or from our domestic legal system. When America insisted on going to war with Iraq without meaningfully engaging the world community or taking seriously the concerns of even its allies, it was short-circuiting its best hope for avoiding regret. Maybe our leaders should be obligated to seek and defer to the judgment of relatively neutral third parties, precisely because history shows that the self-help option is as attractive as it is counterproductive. Sometimes we wisely build institutions to limit our options precisely because we know that our desire to take certain options in the future will lead to tragedy. Sometimes we wisely alter our situation because we cannot trust our disposition.
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The Situationist has a series of posts devoted to highlighting some of situational sources of war. Part I and Part II of the series included portions of an article co-authored by Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon, titled "Why Hawks Win." Part III reproduced an op-ed written by Situationist friend Dan Gilbert on July 24, 2006. Part IV and Part V in this series contained the two halves of an essay written by Situationist Contributor, Jon Hanson within the week following 9/11. Part VI contains an op-ed written by Situationist Contributor John Jost on October 1, 2001, "Legitimate Responses to Illegitimate Acts," which gives special emphasis to the role of system justification. Part VII includes a video entitled "Resisting the Drums of War." The film was created and narrated by psychologist Roy J. Eidelson, Executive Director of the Solomon Asch Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
To review a larger sample of posts on the causes and consequences of human conflict, click here. For a list of posts discussing how people attribute causation, responsibility, and blame, click here.
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3 Responses to "Attributing Blame — from the Baseball Diamond to the War on Terror"
Anonymous said
There's a bit of an inaccuracy at the end of this post. You can't really compare 9/11 and America's war with Iraq to retaliation in baseball. Iraq wasn't responsible for 9/11! America went to war with the wrong country. The administration knew that Iraq wasn't responsible for 9/11 (but many Americans still don't know that, thanks to the media spin). America was so upset about the attack that we went out and bullied another country. That would be like the Red Sox pitchers going after another team to avenge the Yankees perceived attack. We're the aggressors here, not the retaliators.
August 6, 2008 at 12:02 am
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ThaGerm said
That's exactly the point being made. Iraq wasn't responsible and we attacked anyway as our judgment was bias.


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Not all of the parties in the Darfur conflict are willing to sign on to division of authority prescribed in this agreement. Still noticeably absent are the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) as well as the Nur and Minnawi factions of the SLA that continue their military struggle in the southern part of Darfur. Though provisions exist in the document that would award JEM government positions should they put down their arms, these groups argue that the agreement does not meet their needs and that the government in Khartoum cannot be negotiated with on principle. They seek to not only achieve reforms in Darfur but to instigate regime change that will finally topple the power of President Omar al-Bashir and the National Congress Party (NCP).
Khartoum vows to continue its fight against those groups reluctant to cooperate with what it vows is the "final document." The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have begun bombing villages in South Darfur in an effort likely to pressure those rebel groups refusing to buckle and submit. Typical of Sudanese military-political strategy, civilians are caught directly in the crossfire.
The implementation of this peace agreement should be used as a barometer of many things. First and foremost, Khartoum now has the opportunity to prove that it can be taken at its word. Should the NCP allow the peace agreement to help the rebel groups who put down their weapons and bring stability to the people of North Darfur, it will prove to onlookers that it is seriously interested in honest cooperation and creating what Special Envoy Lyman calls an "enabling environment" for open political dialogue that is currently missing the in the region. The other groups in Darfur might consider ending their fight and coming into the fold as well. South Sudan could be encouraged to work more cooperatively with Khartoum to make progress on border disputes and oil revenue sharing.
As lofty as the upsides of cooperation are, the consequences of a disappointment are just as extreme. If the NCP allows the Doha agreement to become a meaningless piece of paper, all semblance of regional trust could be destroyed. By proving that a zebra cannot change its stripes, the rebel groups and regional players will be even more skeptical about accepting Khartoum's olive branches in the future. Regional conflict and suffering would be sure to deepen, as would the international isolation of Bashir's regime. As it becomes clearer that carrot and stick calculations do not faze the Sudanese government, ending the humanitarian crises it incites becomes a difficult paradox to solve. All have much to gain from making good on this step forward. All have much to lose.
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Graham Automobile history in a capsule
Q: Greg, I recently discovered there was a car called the Graham, and since I share that name and have always been a "car guy," I was wondering if you could give any information on the Graham.
I'm incarcerated and not able to pursue this, so any help is appreciated. Respectfully, Laurence Graham, Cotton Correction Facility, Jackson, Miss.
A: Laurence, I'd be happy to. Three brothers with backgrounds in farm equipment production, namely Ray, Joseph and Robert Graham, are the main men behind the Graham car history. This trio moved up the Dodge corporate ladder and by 1926 was totally in charge of Dodge's truck assembly plant.
In 1927, the brothers decided to branch out themselves and purchased the faltering Paige Motor Company. The first Graham car was dubbed a "Graham Paige," released in 1928, and continued through 1941, although the Paige badge disappeared in 1931.
With the "Crash of 1929" at hand, Graham sales numbers hit an all-time high of 77,000. In 1930, the Grahams released both six cylinder and inline eight cylinder models, including a beautiful long wheelbase 137-inch "Custom Eight Town Car." Sales, however, dropped to less than 40,000 cars as the Depression era was in high gear.
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Still, sales struggled.
By 1936, the Grahams offered only six-cylinder cars and were in declining financial health. They even sold their 1935 tooling to Datsun/Nissan in Japan, but even with the Nissan cash they lost over $1 million that year.
By 1937-38, things were still shaky at the company, and even a new "sharknose" Blue Streak didn't help, as only 5,020 cars were sold. Joe Graham then partnered up with Norman DeVaux, who purchased 1937 Cord 810/812 tooling and then linked up with Hupp Automobiles in a joint venture to save all companies involved. Thus, the Hupp Skylark and Graham Hollywood were identical cars, and debuted in 1939 and 1940, respectively.
Neither car helped or sold well.
Hupp then closed its doors early in 1940 and finally Graham in the fall of 1940. However, Joseph Graham survived, as World War II found the Graham company receiving close to $20 million in defense contracts to build needed war equipment.
In 1944, Joseph Frazer, of soon to be Kaiser-Frazer fame, bought Graham's company and released its first car, the Frazer-Graham sold in 1946-47.
There you have it Laurence … and good luck in the future.
Greg Zyla writes weekly for GateHouse Media and welcomes reader questions on collector cars at 303 Roosevelt St., Sayre, PA 18840 or at email@example.com.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats handily secured a majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Connecticut to maintain the control they've held since 2007.
With a third of the Senate up for election, Republicans were undone by candidate stumbles. GOP hopefuls in Missouri and Indiana uttered clumsy statements about rape and abortion that severely damaged their chances and the party's hopes of taking over. The losses of Senate seats in Massachusetts and Indiana, combined with independent Angus King's victory in the Republican-held Maine seat, put the GOP too far down in their already uphill climb.
Democrats held open seats in Virginia, Wisconsin and New Mexico, and were leading in North Dakota shortly after midnight. The only pickup for the Republicans was Nebraska, where Deb Fischer denied former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey's bid to return to the Capitol.
Democrats, once on the wrong side of the political math with 23 seats at risk compared with only 10 for the GOP, suddenly looked like they could increase their numbers. They entered the night with a 53-47 edge, including two independents who caucus with them. After midnight, Democrats controlled 52 seats to the GOP's 44 with three races still outstanding and one newly elected independent, Angus King of Maine, saying he hasn't decided which party he will align with.
In charge again, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Republicans brought defeat on themselves with their preoccupation with denying President Barack Obama a second term.
"Things like this are what happens when your No. 1 goal is to defeat the president and not work to get legislation passed," Reid said. "The strategy of obstruction, gridlock and delay was soundly rejected by the American people. Now they are looking to us for solutions," he said in a separate statement.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the voters have not endorsed the "failures or excesses of the president's first term," but rather have given him more time to finish the job.
"To the extent he wants to move to the political center, which is where the work gets done in a divided government, we'll be there to meet him half way," McConnell said.
The results were a bitter loss for the GOP and are certain to prompt questions about the promise and peril of the tea party movement that just two years ago delivered a takeover of the House to the GOP. In 2010, three tea party Senate candidates in Nevada, Delaware and Colorado cost Republicans seats they were favored to win. On Tuesday, a tea party-backed candidate in Indiana denied the GOP a seat that the party had been favored to win, while Fischer and tea party-backed Ted Cruz of Texas prevailed in their races.
In a sober statement, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said the GOP has work to do.
"We have a period of reflection and recalibration ahead for the Republican Party. While some will want to blame one wing of the party over the other, the reality is candidates from all corners of our GOP lost tonight," Cornyn said, though he added that the party's "conservative vision is the right one to secure a stronger America for future generations."
Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly edged out tea party-backed Indiana state treasurer Richard Mourdock in a race rocked by the Republican candidate's awkward remark that pregnancy resulting from rape is "something God intended."
Mourdock also upset some Indiana voters for his decision to sue to stop the federal auto bailout of Chrysler, which means jobs building transmissions to thousands in Kokomo. And he alienated some in his own party with his divisive win over six-term Sen. Richard Lugar in the May GOP primary. Lugar refused to campaign for him.
In Massachusetts, Democrat Elizabeth Warren knocked out Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who had stunned the political world in January 2010 when he won the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's seat. The strong Democratic tilt in the state and President Barack Obama's easy win over former Gov. Mitt Romney helped the consumer advocate in her bid.
The Massachusetts race was one of the most expensive in the country — $68 million — even though both candidates agreed to bar outside spending.
In Missouri, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill was considered the most vulnerable incumbent, but Republican Rep. Todd Akin severely damaged his candidacy in August when he said women's bodies have ways of avoiding pregnancy in instances of "legitimate rape." GOP leaders, including Romney, called on him to abandon the race. Akin stayed in.
The results ensure plenty of new faces in the Senate, many of them familiar from the House. Republican Rep. Jeff Flake won in Arizona and will join Democratic Reps. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico. In Wisconsin, Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin defeated former four-term Gov. Tommy Thompson and will be the first openly gay senator. .
The caustic campaign for control of the Senate in a divided Congress was marked by endless negative ads and more than $1 billion in spending by outside groups on races from Virginia and Florida to Montana and New Mexico. The outcome in Ohio and Virginia was closely linked to the presidential race.
In Maine, independent Angus King prevailed over Republican Charlie Summers and Democrat Cynthia Dill in the race to replace Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, who blamed partisan gridlock in Washington for her unexpected decision to retire after 18 years in the Senate.
King has resolutely refused to say which party he'd side with if elected. But members of both parties have indicated that they expect the former Democratic governor and Obama supporter to align with Democrats. Reid reached out to him Tuesday night, according to a Senate aide.
In Ohio, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown survived an onslaught of outside spending, some $30 million, to defeat state treasurer Josh Mandel. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Sen. Bob Casey survived a late scare from businessman Tom Smith, who invested more than $17 million of his own money in the race.
Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy won the Connecticut Senate seat held by Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent who was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 2000. Murphy's win marked the second straight defeat for former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, who spent $50 million of her own wealth in a failed effort against Sen. Richard Blumenthal in 2010 and more than $42 million this election cycle.
In Texas, Republican Cruz won the seat held by retiring GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Cruz will become the third Hispanic in the Senate, joining Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
In Florida, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson triumphed in his bid for a third term, holding off a challenge from Republican Rep. Connie Mack. Republican groups had spent heavily against Nelson early in the race, but the moderate Democrat was a prolific fundraiser with wide appeal among Democrats and some Republicans in the Panhandle.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders won a second term in Vermont. Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse in Rhode Island, Ben Cardin in Maryland and Tom Carper in Delaware were all re-elected. Also cruising to another term were Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow in Michigan, Kirsten Gillibrand in New York, Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota, Dianne Feinstein in California, Maria Cantwell in Washington state and Menendez in New Jersey.
In West Virginia, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin won a full term even though his state went heavily for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Tennesseans gave Republican Sen. Bob Corker a second term. Wyoming voters did the same for GOP Sen. John Barrasso, and Republican Roger Wicker captured another term in Mississippi. In Utah, Sen. Orrin Hatch won a seventh term and will be the most senior GOP senator.
Democrats and Republicans in a dozen states faced an onslaught of outside money that financed endless negative commercials and ugly mailings that left voters exasperated. The record independent spending — $50 million in Virginia and $40 million in Wisconsin in addition to $33 million in Ohio — reflected the high-stakes fight for the Senate.
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A new agriculture event will come to the area Dec. 6-8.
The Midwest Farm Expo & Auction, three-day event at the Michiana Event Center in Howe, Ind., offers something for everyone. It will feature a large expo of farm equipment displays, and an auction at 9 a.m. Saturday.
On Thursday, from 9-11 a.m., I will give a talk, "Creatively Managing for Quantity and Quality in a Tough Year."
Thursday is "Dairy Day," offering other dairy-related talks as well.
On Friday, from 9-11 a.m., Bruce MacKellar and I will share a two-hour program with Purdue Extension's Steve Engleking, discussing pesticide safety, well-head protection, herbicide carryover, management considerations for winter annual weeds in spring of 2013, and tips for those spraying fields near organic farms. Two RUP credits will be offered to those with Michigan pesticide applicator licences, and Indiana attendees can receive credits through Purdue.
Other programs will be offered on Friday , including a presentation on irrigation by educator Lyndon Kelley geared toward existing irrigators as well as growers considering an irrigation system for the first time.
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Jon Zirkle is a program instructor in agriculture and Agribusiness at St. Joseph County MSU Extension.


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Four fire departments made quick work of a field fire Monday afternoon on Darnell Road near Bolivia Road between Mechanicsburg and Mount Auburn.
Mechanicsburg Assistant Fire Chief Jason Jarret said a farmer was spraying weeds in a field shortly after 3 p.m. when the hot motor of an all-terrain vehicle likely set fire to a patch of grass on the property. Crews had cleared the scene by 4:40 p.m.
In addition to Mechanicsburg Fire Department, crews from Buffalo, Illiopolis and Rochester also responded.


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Kasha varnishkes is a traditional Russian-Jewish dish of roasted buckwheat groats (kasha) tossed with bowtie noodles. Apparently, my grandfather hated kasha, as he had too many memories of eating it growing up. But we love it. To me, this earthy, satisfying dish typifies Old Country cooking. Despite its name, buckwheat is not related to wheat. Rather, it's a nutritious, gluten-free whole grain from the rhubarb and sorrel family.
Until now, I had to make kasha varnishkes with gluten-free fusilli pasta, as there was no gluten-free bowtie or farfalle pasta available. I was thrilled when Le Veneziane, a superb corn pasta from Italy, recently released gluten-free farfalle.
I wish we had gluten-free farfalle pasta a few years ago, since some of my daughter's preschool and kindergarten projects used bowtie pasta. Don't get me started, though, on schools' unnecessary use of food in the classroom.
Kasha varnishkes can be served as a side-dish for brisket or it can stand alone as a vegetarian entree.
Gluten-Free Kasha Varnishkes
(gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian)
By Gluten-Free Nosh
Recipe adapted from Wolff's Kasha
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup diced onions
1 cup sliced mushrooms
1 egg
1 cup uncooked kasha, medium or coarse granulation preferred
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
2 cups boiling water
9 ounces uncooked gluten-free farfalle pasta
- 1. Heat oil in a large sauté pan that has a lid. Add onions and mushrooms, and sauté uncovered for 5 minutes over medium heat until onions are translucent and mushrooms are browned. Remove onions and mushrooms to a plate and set aside.
- 2. In a medium bowl, lightly beat the egg, salt and pepper with a fork. Add kasha and stir to coat the kernels with egg.
- 3. Put the egg-coated kasha in the same sauté pan that you used earlier, and cook over high heat 2 to 3 minutes, stirring constantly until egg has dried on the kasha and the kernels are separate. Reduce heat to low.
- 4. Add onions and mushrooms to the kasha in the sauté pan, and stir to combine. Pour in the boiling water, and cover pan tightly. Simmer 10-12 minutes over low heat until all the liquid is absorbed.
- 5. Meanwhile, cook farfalle pasta according to the package directions; drain; transfer to a serving bowl.
- 6. Add about 3 cups of the kasha mixture to the pasta and toss well. (This will leave you with 1 cup of extra kasha mixture; refrigerate for later use.) Serve kasha varnishkes warm.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings


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Last week I posted about harvesting honey from our top-bar beehive for the first time. Today, I have someone with more experience than me here to share with you about harvesting honey from a Langstroth hive.
I'm happy to introduce you to Christine Faith, a backyard farmer in Colorado Springs. Christine and her husband Ben raise fruit, vegetables, bees, chickens, ducks, and fish on their small urban farm. In addition, Christine has a new blog, Right to Thrive (www.righttothrive.org) where she hopes to educate others about backyard farming along the front range.
Sticky Sweet and Oh So Good
Fall is the time to harvest many things, but my personal favorite is honey. Fragrant, sticky, golden honey. Nothing is better than honey on fresh bread, to sweeten hot tea, or drizzled over fruit. I love to eat honey, and by luck or by design I am a backyard bee keeper in Colorado Springs.
In the City of Colorado Springs residents are allowed one honey bee hive per household, providing there are no restrictions that say otherwise (think HOA rules or exceptions for apartment buildings). I keep bees in a traditional Langstroth hive body, and practice natural bee keeping methods.
I provide the bees with supplemental food in the summer months when the nectar flow is low (reconstituted organic evaporated cane juice), and feed them pollen patties once a year in the early spring to help ensure they have enough protein in the hive to start ramping-up their numbers for spring.
I don't use pesticides, antibiotics, or any other chemicals on the bees or anywhere else on the property. What our bees find down the road on someone else's property though is anybody's guess, which is why honey can never be labeled as organic. Even without the organic stamp I am big fan of honey, especially honey produced on our little backyard farm by our very special little partners.
I have been asked if removing honey in the fall hurts the bee's chances of surviving the winter. When the harvest comes around the hive will have one or two honey supers on top of the main hive body. Honey supers are smaller hive bodies, with smaller frames than the "deep" supers where the bees live throughout all of the seasons. The honey supers go on in the spring and the bees start packing away honey.
The bees store honey in the top honey supers, as well as the bottom deep supers. The bottom supers can hold as much as 60 lbs. of honey per super, and in Colorado you always run two deeps through the winter. That means the bees should have 60 – 120 lbs. of honey for the winter, depending on the fullness of each deep super. More than enough honey is left in the hive for the bees to eat during the winter.
The actual removal of honey from a particular frame involves three steps. The first step is to remove the frame from the hive body you are working in. The second step is to use an uncapping knife to cut away the caps that keep the honey safely locked into the comb. The uncapping knife that we use is electric and gets hot, which helps to cut though the wax caps. The bees pack honey on both sides of the frame, so both sides need to be uncapped.
The third step is to place the frame into a honey extractor and to spin the extractor. The extractor is a centrifuge that spins in both directions (see picture below). You spin the honey extractor one way to remove honey on one side of the frame, and then you reverse direction to remove honey from the other side of the frame.
The honey extractor can hold several frames at once; honey is extracted from multiple frames at the same time. Once the frame has been spun out completely it is placed back in the honey super and left near the hive for the bees to clean-out and recapture any bits of honey they would like to store in the deep supers. When the bees have finished cleaning the honey super frames the supers are wrapped and stored for the following spring.
This year we harvested 35 lbs. of honey from our backyard hive. For reference, a standard quart mason jar will hold three pounds of honey, so we harvested nearly 12 quart jars. Considering that in the spring our hive swarmed, twice, we were quite pleased with this amount. The most to expect from a Langstroth style hive in a single season is 60lbs., and conditions must be near perfect to achieve this amount of honey.
We have been keeping bees for three years now, and this is the first full harvest we have pulled. As you learn from keeping bees, the production of honey and other hive products (pollen, propolis, wax, and royal jelly) are at times secondary to the additional benefits the bees bring.
Bees perform the critical role of garden and orchard pollination; this activity allows fruits and vegetables to "set fruit." Bees also invite you to sit and watch them. Sitting near the hive and watching the bees come and go has a calming effect, much like watching fish in a fish tank. A dear friend of mine once stated that there is no way she could ever have a hive as she is certain she would never get anything done. Whenever she comes for a visit we take a walk back to the hive where we will both stand and stare, transfixed at the tiny little airport that houses thousands of little bee planes. They are completely fascinating.
Generally folks have a fear of stinging insects. While I have been stung by my bees (twice in three years), in both cases it was my fault and not the fault of the bee. My hive is gentle and calm. They allow me to check in on them without donning a bee veil or other protective gear. I am able to remove the top lid, and remove and inspect individual frames bare-handed; it seems that the bees could care less.
Considering the enormous contributions that bees make to a landscape, the gifts they bring to bear in the hive, and the marvel of glimpsing into their world, I can think of no reason to not keep honey bees (barring of course an allergy to bees). These unparalleled little workers will bring productivity to your garden, goodies to your pantry, and enjoyment to your life. I can't imagine not having them as part of the farm. If one day you decide to get a hive of your own I think you'll find honey bees every bit as amazing as I do.
All photographs on this page Copyright 2012 B. Jack . All Rights Reserved.
Thanks, Christine for the awesome overview and photos! Make sure to check out what else Christine is doing at righttothrive.org.


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Muslim hardliners pressure government; nationals fears they may be next victim of 'purging.'
ISTANBUL, May 21 (CDN) — In a second wave of deportations from Morocco, officials of the majority-Muslim country have expelled 26 foreign Christians in the last 10 days without due process.
Following the expulsion of more than 40 foreign Christians in March, the deportations were apparently the result of Muslim hardliners pressuring the nation's royalty to show Islamic solidarity.
The latest deportations bring the number of Christians who have had to leave Morocco to about 105 since early March. Christians and expert observers are calling this a calculated effort to purge the historically moderate country, known for its progressive policies, of all Christian elements – both foreign and national.
"I don't see the end," said Salim Sefiane, a Moroccan living abroad. "I see this as a 'cleansing' of Christians out of Morocco, and then I see this turning against the Moroccan church, which is already underground, and then persecution of Moroccan Christians, which is already taking place in recent days."
At least two Moroccan Christians have been beaten in the last 10 days, sources told Compass, and police have brought other Moroccan Christians to police stations daily for psychologically "heavy" interrogations.
Authorities are enquiring about the activities of foreign and local Christians.
Forcibly Ejected
Legal sources said that according to Moroccan law, foreigners who have lived in the country for more than 10 years cannot be deported unless they are accused of a crime. They have the right to appeal the deportation order within 48 hours.
With only hours' notice and forced escort to the country's exit ports, almost none of the deportees were able to appeal their deportations.
"Most of these [deportations] are happening over the weekends, when the courts are closed," Sefiane said. "Most of them are done in a way where they're bringing them in [to the police station], intimidating them, and manhandling them out of the country. Many of them are not even going back to say goodbye to their wives, or even to pack a bag."
With the exception of three foreigners, in none of the forced deportations did authorities produce an official deportation order, sources said. In many cases, Moroccan officials used embassies to notify foreigners that they were being deported. In most cases, foreigners were presented with a document in Arabic for them to sign that stated that they "understood" that they were being deported.
Compass learned of one case in which a foreigner was forced to the airport, and when he resisted he was forcibly drugged and sent to his native country.
"The expats in the country are very vulnerable, and the way it has happened has been against the laws of the country," said a European Christian who was deported last week after nearly a decade of running his business in Morocco. "When I tried to walk away from the situation, I was physically stopped."
The deported Christian said that authorities never informed any of the Christian foreigners of their rights, when in fact there are national laws protecting foreigners.
"Basically they are trying to con everyone into leaving the country," he said.
Deported foreigners have had to leave their families behind in Morocco, as well as their friends and communities. Many of the deportees were the male breadwinners of the family and have left their families behind as they try to decide their future.
"It's devastating, because we have invested years of our lives into our community, business community and charity sectors," said the European Christian. "People flooded to our house when they heard I was bundled into the back of a police car by the local authorities. It was like a death in the family – forcibly ejected from the country without being able to say goodbyes, just like that."
The deportees have included Christians from North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, New Zealand and Korea.
"It's come out of left field," said the European. "No one really knows why this is happening."
Internal Pressure
A regional legal expert said on condition of anonymity that a small number of extremist Muslims have undertaken a media campaign to "get [Christians'] good works out of the public eye and demonize Christians," in order to expel them and turn the nation against local Christians – some of whom are third-generation followers of Jesus.
"There are too many eyes and ears to what they want to do to the native Christians," said the expert. "They're trying to get to them …They want to shut down the native Moroccan Christians."
Deportation orders are coming from the Ministry of Interior, and speculation on the reason for the sudden spike in expulsions has centered on the arrival of a new, hard-line Muslim interior director in January.
Moroccan officials have cited "proselytism" as the reason for the deportations. Reuters news agency reported Religious Endowments and Islamic Affairs Minister Ahmed Toufiq as saying "proselytism" and "activism of some foreigners" had "undermined public order."
On April 12 local media reported that 7,000 religious Muslim leaders signed a document describing the work of Christians within Morocco as "moral rape" and "religious terrorism." The statement from the religious leaders came amid a nationwide mudslinging campaign geared to vilify Christians in Morocco for "proselytism" – widely perceived as bribing people to change their faith.
Religious rights advocates point out that under Article 18 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the more than 100 foreigners who had lived in Morocco, some for decades, not only had the right to stay in the country but had contributed to the nation.
"They expelled people who helped build up the country, trained people, educated Moroccan children, cared for orphans and widows, increased the GDP and trade," said the regional legal expert. "These people they expelled weren't even proselytizing under their own law. There's an international standard, yet they changed the definition of the terminology and turned it into this horrible 'religious terrorism.'"
One of the country's most prestigious educational institutions, George Washington Academy in Casablanca, has come under fierce criticism from media and investigation by authorities.
"The biggest problem is the image the Ministry of Justice is pushing about who the Christian foreigners are," said another observer on condition of anonymity. "All the articles have been extreme exaggerations of the manipulative aspect of what foreigners were doing, and especially when it comes to minors."
Local Christians have reported to sources outside of Morocco that attitudes towards them, which used to be more tolerant, have also shifted as a result of the extremist-led campaign, and some are experiencing family and societal pressure and discrimination as well.
International Forces
While the deportations have perplexed the local Christian community, the regional legal expert said that in some ways this was calculated and inevitable.
He said that the Organization of the Islamic Conference had been putting pressure on countries across the Middle East and North Africa to remove their Christian elements. Iraq, with its decline in Christian population from a few million to a few hundred thousand over the last decade, is a case in point.
"Countries which have been more forward looking and spoken about rights, freedoms and equalities have been pressured to demonstrate their Muslim credentials, and the best way to do this is to sanitize [religious] minorities from the borders," he said.
Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.), co-chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, has called congressional hearings on June 17 to examine the human rights situation in Morocco in light of the expulsions. On Wednesday (May 19) Wolf called on the U.S. government to suspend $697.5 million in aid it has pledged to Morocco based on criteria that it is "ruling justly."
"We've been told the Christians are a threat to the national security, so they are using terrorism laws against peace-loving Christians," said the deported European Christian. "But it is massively backfiring."
The Christian described how the Moroccan friends of Christian foreigners have been asking why they are being deported for their faith.
"They are being impacted by the reality of Christ through this, and it's having more of an effect on the community than years and years of quietly demonstrating Christ peacefully and lawfully," he said. "By breaking their own laws, they have opened the lid on the reality of the life of Christ."
There are an estimated 1,000 Moroccan Christian converts. They are not recognized by the government. About 99 percent of Morocco's population of more than 33 million is Muslim.
Report from Compass Direct News


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On the heels of more grim unemployment news, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday offered the first glimpse of what would be the largest public works program since President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the federal interstate system in the 1950s.
Obama said the massive government spending program he proposes to lift the country out of economic recession will include a renewed effort to make public buildings energy-efficient, rebuild the nation's highways, renovate aging schools and install computers in classrooms, extend high-speed Internet to underserved areas and modernize hospitals by giving them access to electronic medical records.
"We need to act with the urgency this moment demands to save or create at least 2 1/2 million jobs so that the nearly 2 million Americans who've lost them know that they have a future," Obama said in his weekly address, broadcast on the radio and the Internet.
Obama offered few details and no cost estimate for the investment in public infrastructure. But it is intended to be part of a broader effort to stimulate economic activity that will also include tax cuts for middle-class Americans and direct aid to state governments to forestall layoffs as programs shrink.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has called for spending between $400 billion and $500 billion on the overall package. Some Senate Democrats and other economists have suggested spending even more — potentially $1 trillion — in the hope of jolting the economy into shape more quickly.


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MIKE NADEL: Don't tell me you expected this from Marquis, Rothschild
Obviously, all Jason Marquis needed was an out-of-whack contract that would put crazy pressure on him, the uniform number of a disgraced former icon and a spot in a rotation overseen by one of Chicago's most-criticized coaches.
"Cubs Stud Jason Marquis" ... yep, all of us should have seen that coming.
Just because he was arguably the National League's worst starter in 2006 and just because his career had been mediocrity personified (even though he had worked with pitching masterminds Dave Duncan and Leo Mazzone), how could we have doubted Marquis would be a candidate to start the 2007 All-Star Game once he got to work with Larry Rothschild?
I love many, many things about sports, but what I love most is this kind of story. I love it when underdogs win, when the invincible turn out to be vincible and when athletes who have no business excelling do just that. I especially love it when so-called experts are wrong, even when I'm one of them.
Marquis was studly again Wednesday in a brilliant 1-0 victory over Pittsburgh, pitching no-hit ball for 51/3 innings and finishing with a three-hitter for the Cubs' first complete game this season. Consistently getting ahead of hitters with his low-90s fastball and elusive breaking pitches, the only offensive support he needed was Alfonso Soriano's home run on Tom Gorzelanny's second pitch of the night.
Marquis' marquee performance couldn't have been more timely for manager Lou Piniella, who had used every pitcher other than Three-Finger Brown and Orval Overall in Tuesday's 15-inning loss to the Pirates.
"We needed it; our bullpen was really spent," Piniella said. "You could tell he had good stuff. He finished it, and he finished it in convincing fashion. His stuff wasn't going down."
But his ERA was. Again.
After posting a 6.02 mark last year and faltering so badly down the stretch that St. Louis dropped him from its postseason roster, Marquis is 5-1 with a 1.70 ERA for his new team.
This must be beyond stunning to most Cardinals fans. At the time, who could blame them for laughing their red-capped heads off whenever they thought about Cubs GM Jim Hendry lavishing $21 million of Tribune Co.'s lame-duck dough on a guy with a 56-52 career record and 4.55 ERA? Then, when Marquis opted to take Sammy Sosa's No. 21 out of mothballs, the pending train wreck seemed complete.
Instead, while Marquis has led a superb Cubs rotation, the pitching-poor Cardinals are stinking up the NL Central.
The only Cub authoring a more surprising story than Marquis has been Rothschild, who was blamed for failing to guide last year's group of disabled-list regulars, Double-A kids and disheveled has-beens to greatness. (Wouldn't Duncan have won the World Series with Jae Kuk Ryu, Les Walrond and Glendon Rusch?)
Additionally, Rothschild was blamed when his pitchers imploded during the 2004 collapse. (Why didn't he make Greg Maddux do better?) He has been blamed for the arm woes of Kerry Wood and Mark Prior. (How could he have thought a few drops of Super Glue would last an entire season?) If memory serves, he also has been blamed for global warming, high gas prices and the Worldcom fiasco.
Well, look at Larry Rothschild now.
Marquis and Ted Lilly, the other big-money acquisition with the similarly unimpressive career record, have been outstanding - and neither has been the team's top starter. That distinction belongs to young lefty Rich Hill, who has blossomed under Rothschild's tutelage. Even with alleged ace Carlos Zambrano struggling some, the Cubs' 3.35 ERA ranks among baseball's best.
"Winning starts with starting pitching, and ours has kept us in just about every game," said Piniella, who made Rothschild the lone holdover from Dusty Baker's staff. "We've got four guys who know how to pitch and their styles complement each other very well. You've got to give Larry a lot of credit."
Marquis did: "He's really helped me fine-tune my delivery. He found some flaws I was searching for all last year."
That's right, folks: Larry Rothschild succeeded where Dave Duncan failed. This time, anyway.
Of course, Duncan won the World Series last season. And although the Cubs are showing some positive signs - above-average bullpen work and an offense that's coming around to go with the fine starting rotation - they are only 16-15. A championship for Cubbieland remains a longer shot than Danny DeVito riding the winner in the Preakness Stakes.
Then again, stranger things have happened in the sports world we love.
Don't believe me? Just take another look at the record of Cubs Stud Jason Marquis.
Mike Nadel (firstname.lastname@example.com) is the Chicago sports columnist for GateHouse News Service. Read his blog, The Baldest Truth, at http://blogs.sj-r.com/thebaldesttruth


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